The PSA is an impressive but cumbersome space, a huge building likened by curator Qui Zhijie to London’s Tate Modern. The PSA may have similar hardware to that legendary institution but it doesn’t have the software — the staffing, budgets, etc — to match. Nevertheless, it has accomplished an incredible amount, hosting two biennales, visits from the Warhol museum and the Centre Pompidou, and, in 2014, a memorable Cai Guo-qiang solo show.

The theme for the biennial’s 12th iteration is “​Proregress—Art in an Age of Historical Ambivalence.” According to a statement on the biennale’s website, this title refers to a sense of instability felt around the world these days....

British visual artist David Shrigley is known for his clever use of puns, satirical play-on-words, to present his unique black humor and absurd surrealist depictions of everyday situations. Entitled Lose Your Mind, his solo exhibition...

HON is an exhibition that pairs the female artists Niki de Saint Phalle & Shen Yuan to present important selected works from throughout both of their careers. The exhibition sets out to pay homage to HON, a milestone work created in 1966...

The exhibition centers around over 20 Chinese architects who had studied at Penn's Department of Architecture between 1918 and 1937, presenting their academic training and achievements at the university, alongside their illustrious...

This is Chinese-Swiss artist Franklin Chow's debut solo exhibition in China, titled for the diverse experiences and confluence of cultures that Chow has known in his life and art as he eventually meandered his way home to his roots in...

Mostly known for the 2016's hit anime “Your Name”, Japanese self-made animator, director Shinkai Makoto debuted commercially with his short-film, “Voices of a Distant Star” in 2002. For 15 years since then, he has created the most...

Been down to the Power Station of Art recently? You should. There are four quality exhibitions up right now, spanning contemporary art, Shanghai’s historical architecture, and top-notch Japanese anime. Go for the afternoon.
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Two heavyweight Shanghai museums -- Yuz Museum and Power Station of Art have launched four new exhibitions just in time for the holiday break. The headline-grabbing, social media favorite "Rain...
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21Cake , "China's first luxury cake maker" according to Wallpaper magazine, is an online cake delivery company that specializes in impossibly fancy square cakes -- like the kind of cakes that would appear on The Great British...
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From cremaster muscles to minimalism, street art to sculpture, here’s a pick of golden opportunities for soaking up a spot of culture this weekend and into next week.
A hands down highlight is a solo showcase of late, great Cuban-born American artist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres , open to the public from Saturday, 1 October at Read more...

Shanghai's got more art openings than you can shake a meaningless liberal arts degree at these next few days. Sundry galleries and museums across town, far and wide, are pulling out the stops to WOW collectors and connoisseurs en route to next week’s two big art fairs in Hong Kong: Art Central and Art Basel. We're talking Alberto Giacometti, Ai Weiwei, giant fish at PSA, Olafur...
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